Sentences with phrase «numeroust tea party groups»

Even tea party groups that have backed Akin in the past said he should step aside for the good of the party and the conservative cause.

The agency has acknowledged that it gave extra scrutiny to tea party groups applying for federal tax exemptions.

Also today, Paladino hosted an event at the Albany Crowne Plaza at which he was endorsed by a host of Tea Party groups, including (as per his campaign manager Michael Caputo):

In that respect, it would have been counterintuitive for Bloomberg to endorse Cuomo's GOP opponent, Carl Paladino, who has the support of Tea Party groups in New York and espouses a far - right ideology.

The article profiles the efforts of Dick Armey's FreedomWorks to «turn local Tea Party groups into a standing get - out - the - vote operation in Congressional districts across the country,» in part through a series of trainings that would be right at home in the 2008 Obama grassroots operation.

That's why an equally impressive array of national figures such as Dr. Henry Kissinger, and local organizations such as the East End's premier Tea Party group, the Suffolk County 9 - 12 Project, have wholeheartedly rejected your candidate and endorsed my candidacy.

The personal one is evident through how he deals with his caucus of 232 Republicans, especially the unruly tea party group.

Egads Carl, 4 groups out of 106 Tea Party groups in NY is not «many, many NY TEA activists.»

«This whole situation has sparked a huge and in many ways contentious debate between TEA Party groups across the state.

Thompson is soliciting a «simple one or two sentence statement» from the various Tea Party groups statewide on whether they support Caputo's efforts, adding: «He can not be allowed to be seen as speaking for the entire TEA Party movement across the state.»

Thompson doesn't like that because the Tea Party groups should be sticking together.

We would most definitely like to get an accurate picture of where all the NY TEA Party groups stand on the issue, and that's why we have asked that every group craft their own statement, send it to your Media list, and send it to us.

Does anyone else find irony that Thompson is trying to tell these Tea Party groups what to do, when their raison d'etre is all about not having political insiders tell them what to do.

The site currently shows 607 Tea Party groups with about 63,000 members, nearly all happening in the U.S. Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project shows another 333 groups, with about 39,000 members.

The group tells CNN that their convention will be held on September 24th in Greenfield, Indiana and that it will include both a convention style format and a straw poll, with two delegates each from 55 tea party groups from across the state voting.

A Wichita - based tea party group is attempting to revive a Kansas bill that would allow religious - based discrimination against gays, with the group saying the bill is as much a protection of LGBT rights as it is a protection of the rights of Christian... Read

Tenney, a conservative who has received strong support from Tea Party groups in the past, is viewed by Hanna as too extreme to represent the eight - county district.

In May, Mourdock toppled longtime Indiana Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in a bitter primary contest with the support of national, state and local tea party groups.

IN KENTUCKY... Tuesday's marquee battle is in Kentucky, where Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell is being challenged by businessman Matt Bevin, who enjoys strong support from many tea party groups and influential conservative anti-establishment organizations.

Still, he said anti-establishment energy by voters could come to play further down the Republican primary ballot in his state, where Rep. Martha Roby is facing opposition by Becky Gerritson the leader of the Wetumpka, Ala., tea party group.

In NY alone, Tea Party groups are picking and choosing who they want in as many races as possible.

If given a full choice, I wonder if Bernsten's preference was Steve Levy because they both had support from the 9 - 12 and Tea Party groups in Suffolk County

While it might be expected that the party would support a lifelong member and landslide - winning candidate, Democrats waited until after Cuomo had garnered support from the state Conservative Party, business coalitions and even tea party groups — entities more accustomed to blasting Democrats than helping them.

Congressmen representing central and northern New York all agree that the recent IRS profiling of conservative organizations, including tea party groups, is wrong.

(CNN)- Two of the nation's prominent tea party groups will merge for a Wisconsin bus tour in support of six Republican state senators facing recall elections.

(CNN)- A leading national tea party group Thursday will endorse a conservative candidate who is primary challenging longtime Republican Sen. Dick Lugar of Indiana.

«Cambridge Analytica's statistical models isolated likely supporters whom Parscale bombarded with ads on Facebook, while the campaign bought up email lists from the likes of Gingrich and Tea Party groups to prospect for others.»

There was deep overlap between the attendees, Tea Party groups and other dissatisfied conservatives whose anger with state politics was forged by Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, the SAFE Act.

One top Tea Party group would even send a fundraising appeal urging members to «wipe the smirk off Karl Rove's face,» accompanied by a photo illustration of Rove in a Nazi SS uniform.

Smith is backed by some tea party groups and by the DC - based anti-tax group Club for Growth, which has a history of backing conservative primary challengers.

(CNN)- The national Tea Party group that helped Joe Miller win the Republican Senate primary in Alaska now says they're going up with two new commercials in support of the GOP nominee.

What is more, Republican officials note that many Tea Party groups have tried to field contenders in South Dakota and West Virginia, and have come up short.

That is, unlike the Republican county machines, which have traditionally been able to leverage patronage into electoral muscle, the Tea Party groups depend entirely on volunteers.

On the wall next to Flanagan's desk is a large map of New York State, with push pins attached to Post-Its, on which he jots the names and locations of other Tea Party groups, some of which he coordinated with during the fight for the tax - cap.

Flanagan, a 57 - year - old trade - directory publisher who once had aspirations of running for office, is now a study in conservative grassroots activism, illustrating both the way in which Tea Party groups can figure into policy fights even in a liberal state like New York, and how they maximize the influence they have with public officials.

Other Nassau and Suffolk Republican insiders can't find it in themselves to muster even that polite sort of response, and claim Flanagan — and his Tea Party group — have an inflated sense of their own importance.

(CNN)- Several Republican senators said Wednesday they were surprised and angered after a news report revealed that their GOP colleague, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, made a recent fundraising appeal for a tea party group that is trying to defeat GOP incumbents it doesn't believe are conservative enough.

(CNN)- The leaders of some national tea party groups aren't taking kindly to tough talk by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Carl Levin wasn't the only Democrat pressuring the IRS to target conservative and TEA PArty groups.

Prominent national tea party groups did spend independently to help Brat.

Tea party groups have suddenly begun pressuring Republican state lawmakers to reassess their support for the bipartisan initiative on Common Core Learning Standards backed by President Obama.

He had support from some tea party groups, but more important, he harnessed a very raw anger among GOP primary voters, largely in economically ravaged western New York.

«There are over 300 data elements the government is going to be collecting about your children and about you,» Tim Curtis, an activist with the tea party group 9/12, said in Tampa.

In reality, the Common Core represents another schism on the right, with mainstream business groups like the Chamber of Commerce and Business Roundtable supporting the standards, while Tea Party groups denounce them.

A few days before Senator Schneider's anti — Common Core bill passed, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce (which had spent more than $ 100,000 in ads opposing the bill) lashed out in frustration at the outsized effect Heather and Erin had had on the legislature: «Two moms from Indianapolis, a handful of their friends and a couple dozen small but vocal Tea Party groups.

That started to change last summer, when local tea party groups began protesting what they viewed as the latest intrusion by an overreaching federal government — even though the impetus had come from the states.

Tea party groups including the American Principles Project have organized their members against the Core, and conservative radio personality Glenn Beck has called it a product of extreme leftist ideology.»

In May, state tea party groups sent a letter to Walker and the Legislature accusing the Common Core of being all sorts of bad things, including an «educational fraud» and something of a federal takeover of education.

«But the full - court press by Tea Party groups to get Republican legislators to repeal the Common Core has only been successful in Oklahoma.»

The new polls make clear that more than a year of high - profile opposition to the Common Core from parent activists on the left and the right, as well as from tea party groups, celebrity comedians and politicians such as Jindal and Huckabee, has taken a toll.